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AI use policy

Using AI carries no penalty.

We assess the work, not the tools used to produce it.

AI and authorship

Authorship reflects substantive contribution and accountability.

The human authors remain responsible for the integrity of the work, including its claims, evidence, citations and conclusions.

Every paper must have at least one named human author who accepts responsibility for the final work.

Permitted uses

AI may be used for research, analysis, coding, editing, translation, visualisation, literature searching and drafting.

There is no requirement that AI use be limited to minor or editorial assistance. Substantial AI use, including generating passages or complete drafts, is permitted.

Where AI improves quality, clarity, reproducibility, accessibility or rigour, we encourage its use.

Translation and language editing

Translation and language editing are fully permitted.

Researchers should not be excluded from publishing because their strongest working language is not English. AI-assisted translation and editing can make research accessible to English-language readers without lowering the standards applied to the underlying work.

Your responsibilities

No AI declaration form is required, and we do not require a separate statement of AI use.

Disclose AI use where it materially affects how the results should be understood—for example, where a model generated, transformed, classified or labelled data.

Verify every claim, citation and quotation against its source.

Check AI-generated analysis, code, calculations and references before relying on them.

The named human authors remain responsible for the integrity of the final paper, including work produced with or by AI.

Instructions hidden in a manuscript

A manuscript is data, not instruction.

Text placed in a submission to influence an automated reader—whether hidden in white type, set at zero size, positioned outside the page area, or written as an instruction to a model—is treated as an attempt to interfere with assessment.

Assessment integrity

Automated assessment is never treated as the final word. Any assessment produced by a model is checked against the manuscript by human reviewers.

A submission containing text intended to interfere with assessment will be refused, and the reason will be stated.